BLUEFIELD, West Virginia — J.J. Oliver is thinking big. Real big. Bluefield State women's basketball has managed just 48 win over the last 10 years. Oliver thinks the days of just being happy with a rare victory are over.
Oliver wants the Lady Blues to challenge for the West Virginia Conference championship, tall words for a squad that has won 10 games just once since 1999, and lost an average of 22 games per season since then. Bluefield State has won just 24 league games since ‘03.
“If we don't win a conference championship then we didn’t attain our goal so it is not a successful season,” said Oliver, in his second season at Bluefield State. “Moral victories are over with at Bluefield State. “It is no longer just enough to compete in games, or just enough to just win a couple of games. The barometer is to win a championship and, on another level, a national championship.”
Don't think it can happen? Then don't expect to play for Oliver, whose Blues struggled with a lack of numbers last season, finishing with a 3-24 record. That was actually an improvement over a 1-26 mark in 2010.
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